Essex County

MULTIRACIAL PROFILE

The 2000 Census questionnaire was the first to allow respondents to select more than one race
. Nationwide, approximately 2.4 percent of the population, over 6.8 million Americans, marked an identification with two or more races.

As is the case with many racial and ethnic groups, the multiracial population is not evenly distributed across the country. Hawaii has the largest multiracial population with 24.1 percent of its population identifying with two or more races. Alaska follows a distant second with 5.4 percent identifying as multiracial. The five least multiracial states (Mississippi, West Virginia, Maine, Alabama and South Carolina) all have multiracial populations of less than 1 percent.

For more on the geography of the U.S. multiracial population, see our multiracial map
.

Number of Races Selected

Number

Percent of Total

Percent of Multiracial

Two Races

318

0.82%

94.64%

Three Races

16

0.04%

4.76%

Four Races

0

0.00%

0.00%

Five Races

0

0.00%

0.00%

Six Races

2

0.01%

0.60%

Multiple Race Combinations by Frequency

Rank

Multiple Race Selection

Number

Percent of Total Population

Percent of Multiple Race Population

1.

White and American Indian

163

0.42%

48.51%

2.

White and Some Other Race

62

0.16%

18.45%

3.

White and Asian

37

0.10%

11.01%

4.

White and Black

27

0.07%

8.04%

5.

Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and Some Other Race

8

0.02%

2.38%

6.

White and Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

7

0.02%

2.08%

7.

White and American Indian and Some Other Race

5

0.01%

1.49%

8.

Black and American Indian

4

0.01%

1.19%

9.

Black and Some Other Race

4

0.01%

1.19%

10.

White and Black and American Indian

4

0.01%

1.19%

11.

Asian and Some Other Race

3

0.01%

0.89%

12.

White and Black and Some Other Race

3

0.01%

0.89%

13.

Black and Asian

2

0.01%

0.60%

14.

White and Black and Asian

2

0.01%

0.60%

15.

White and Black and American Indian and Asian and Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and Some Other Race